Rachel Levitsky came out as a Lesbian in 1984 and as a poet in 1994. She is the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003), NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009, 2020), the poetic novella The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem, 2013) and numerous chapbooks. In 1999 she founded Belladonna* which is now Belladonna* Collaborative. She teaches writing at Pratt Institute.